etiolate
verb
- to become pale, weaken, especially with lack of light
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈiːti.əleɪt/
adj
Etymology: French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
- etiolated
verb
Etymology: French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
- To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
- To make pale and sickly-looking.
“She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.”
“Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.”
- To become pale or blanched.